.: ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery :.

In protest of no-one commenting on my entries.......NOT ENOUGH COMMENTS PEOPLE!

Come on you should know bloggers are comment whores, we thrive on comments...even though I see the page views, the unique visits....you are here, you are reading, watching, stalking..

Stop being silent, say something, say my post sucks, my pictures are bad....anything.

Anyway if you have something to say, anything to say - just comment. Don't be shy, I'd love to see at least 10 comments on every post.

Give me some feedback, let me know if I'm boring you, if I'm posting stuff that interests you - or otherwise.

It's two years since I've been filling the Internet with my bullshit, amazing eh?

It was October 19th 2004 when I wrote my first proper post on bBlog, time flies eh?

I e-mailed a few people and got comments on my first post, teh awesome!

I got deep into bBlog and even did some development for them, the whole thing was setup with Textpad, Paintshop Pro and hard work!

I moved to Wordpress January 1st 2006, earlier this year, so it's been about 10 months with Wordpress.

I do suggest going back through my archives and reading my earlier posts as I was a bit crazy then so it was interesting, you can see how varied my posts are aswell and how inconsistent they were, I used to write a lot about my personal life and about 5-6 different things in one post a-la-lainie style.

Of course I also wrote some great posts, but not all the time Some memorable ones from the first two months would be...

• The Asian education mindset..and how it worries me
• Ah Lians Lian, Ah Bengs Beng, Lala's and aLtErNaTiNg cApItAlS
• Inconsiderate Drivers & Road Hogs.

Anyway happy birthday to me blog, it's getting older..and hopefully better!

This year has loads of good posts, but you've probably read em all so no point linking those You can check them out on the archives page or just look at the most popular posts page for an idea on what people like.

I hope you all enjoy my blog as much as I enjoy writing it, even though I kinda run out of things to say sometimes, I thank you muchos all my commenters and readers for giving me the incentive to write.

Even if you are a silent violet just drop a comment on this post so I know you are there.

I forgot to post this earlier in the day, I'm having some kinda flu thing because of my dust allergy and the haze so I sleep most the time and the rest I feel like I'm gonna itch my eyes out and put them in the fridge.

Nice!

Last years blog birthday post here.

So here I was minding my own business when I heard about a post from FA that mentioned her, so I had a look at this blog, Kenny No-Coconuts did an aside about it before, Miniwhatever blogged about it too.

Well now it seems like it's my turn, this post is inspired by the alltime grand master of pain, Maddox, yeah he's my man! My little battles are nothing in comparison to his intergalatic missions of destruction.

Inspired, outraged, nihilistic STFUNESS of bombastic power, STEP AWAY FROM THE THESAURAS BITCH.

To quote:

Ever wanted to become a trashy internet cam whore, but you just don't know how? Tired of earning money for things the honest way? If you're shameless and conceited enough, then the exciting world of online prostitution may be for you. It's hard at first, but don't get discouraged. Being a cranky bitch and undressing yourself in front of a cam for middle-aged men isn't as easy as it seems.

There's so many of these cheesy fucking fancy letters on my pictures, look at me, write about me, look at me more, flash my titties blogs around now.

Of course Joyce The Fairy did the whole cool writing on pictures things first, and best, with style.

Now comes Emo, angsty, juvenial rich kids whinging about their losses..MUST BE EMO.

I just found out about the JasMANn school of blogging.

The EMO Face : Maddox vs JasMANn

Don't smile, it's not COOL!

From: Monochroma Fantastique

The Intellectual EMO Glasses : Maddox vs JasMANn

No pseudo-intellectual is complete without a pair of ultra-hip "EMO" glasses. Just put them on and let the smart vibes flow. A mere glance and people will be able to tell that you're the type of person who reads Dostoevsky.

Or if you are JasMANn, just quote some pretentious song lyrics no one has heard of and no one cares about.

I fucking hate these stupid thick rim canadian emo glasses, BURN THEM YOU ASSHOLES.

From: Please Insert Brain

The Stupid EMO Poetry : Maddox vs JasMANn

Maddox:

fire... burning... agony...
sultry shivers of a dark essence
why am i tortured with this nihilistic existence?
bitter... darkness... despair.

JasMANn:

i will not love
i will settle for lust
pure unrestrained stringless lust
that way when the scissors fall like an executioner's axe,
i won't cut myself away into a chasm of dissapointment and endless hopelessness and dissapointment

From: Slit My Wrists

Can't write? Don't worry just Whore yourself!

It seems like..

"Oh I can't get readers, cos I can't write, so I'll get my titties out, simulate some blowjobs and get a bunch of horny net nerds to boost my traffic! Then I'll reply every comment with a new comment to boost my comment count, w00t, profit!"

I'm spoilt and you know it, clap your hands!

"And I must mention I'm rich and privileged in every post, oh of course I pretend I'm poor now and then and ask people to buy me stuff, I must play on my flaws, such as fake dyslexia and ADD (ADD is the 'IN' condition now, get some Ritalin now! It used to be in to be manic depressive)."

There you go JasMANn (Sorry I can't spell I'm dyslexic) - Seen as though you crave attention, a whole post dedicated to you If I didn't have ADD I'd make the post longer, but sorry I can't concentrate on you for any longer.

Credits to Maddox: How to be an Obnoxious Cam Whore

I have to say I do use Technorati quite a lot, mostly as an ego tool with the nice watchlist

Da I can watch "Shaolin Tiger" "ShaolinTiger" and "http://www.shaolintiger.com" to see who is linking me or talking about me.

They are doing a great job of tracking the movements in the global blog arena, how many new blogs are formed, how often people update and how popular certain blogs are.

They do seem to have some capacity issues lately though as I get 'too busy' messages quite frequently and their "Last updated" was totally messed up for quite a while (It showed this blog as last updated 198 days ago..when I update it pretty much daily).

Darren Rowse of Problogger even bitched about it in January.

What I am looking at today though is the quarterly summary they do, which shows the HUGE increase of bloggers, and the persistency rate has also gone up.

What Technorati have found is that the number of blogs doubles roughly every 6 months! There are 60 times, yes 60 TIMES more blogs than there were 3 years ago (Technorati currently tracks 35.3 Million weblogs).

Technorati currently tracks over 75,000 new weblogs created every day, which means that on average, a new weblog is created every second of every day - and 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created. That's an increase both absolute and relative terms over just 3 months ago, when only 50.5% or 13.7 million blogs were active. In other words, even though there's a reasonable amount of tire-kicking going on, blogging continues to grow as a habitual activity.

In addition to that, about 3.9 million bloggers update their blogs at least weekly.

Some pretty interesting statistics.

ALL YOUR BASE AM BELONG TO BLOGGERS - w00t

I can't take all the negative comments any more..

All the horrible e-mails.

All the lies.

All the jealousy.

All the cliques.

All the haters.

It's just not worth it..

I Just

Any MORE

Better channel all my energy into something better right?

I was browsing PPS last night and came across thia advert for LiewCF and his 'Tech' blog.

I've noticed more and more lately bloggers and informational sites paying to get traffic, from the statistics I've seen it will actually make them money.

For example they can spend $5 on Adwords and get back $7 in Adsense, it's not a great deal of profit, but if you are already making money from your site it is a way to increase it.

I would wonder though if this is actually working for LiewCF as his advert isn't very eye catching or well worded and it's quite ironic that it shows up on PPS because I'd say 90% of the people there already know about him, so any that click the ad are just costing him money, but he's not gaining new readers.

What do you think about this?

Will will be seeing ads from Lillian Chan showing up in our Adsense blocks any time soon?

I already saw Adbrite ads for Hottest Malay Girl on Kenny's site and now LiewCF is there too.

I had a feeling the Hottest Malay Girl was Kahsoon at first, but I don't think it is.

I considered using Adwords for some of my other sites but I haven't yet, I'm doing some campaigns with Adwords at work now though, so I'll see the progress.

Pretty interesting technique for the 'probloggers' I think.